Funding for advanced prototyping could see a boost in the Navy's fiscal year 2017 budget submission, as officials plan to push more innovative technologies out to the fleet for experimentation. The "Advanced Component Development and Prototypes" account, a subset of the Navy's research and development fund, received $4.4 billion in FY-15. The Navy had plans to increase the account to $5 billion in FY-16, according to the service's budget request. The federal government has been operating under a continuing resolution...
